HD Heads-Up: March 17 UPDATED

KA-POW! The latest superhero series to go belly-up on TV2 is Arrow. Supergirl and The Flash were consigned to Saturday afternoons last month, Gotham (which has just been renewed for a third season) resurfaces next week in SD on Duke, don’t expect to see Agents of SHIELD in primetime again, and as of March 31, Arrow will screen 11.35 Thursdays. It turns out Arrow aired 9.30 Thursday for the last time on March 10, before being pre-empted tonight because of its US scheduling and next week by the Easter movie, The Karate Kid. Meanwhile, the pending Flash and Supergirl crossover will mark the first time two superheroes from rival networks have teamed up …

TV3 will screen an Ice AgeTV special within a week of its US broadcast. Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (5.30 Easter Saturday) reveals the origins of the world’s first Easter egg hunt and essentially is an extended promo for the release of the next Ice Age movie, Collision Course, in July. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary reprise their roles from the movies for the half-hour spin-off, which will also star Seth Green (Family Guy), Taraji P. Henson (Empire) and Josh Peck (Grandfathered).

❏ Speaking of super line-ups: The Graham Norton Showon April 1 (TV3, 9.30) will guest star Batman v Superman’s Henry Carvill, Ben Affleck and Amy Adams. Also new that’s of note in HD for the week starting March 26 are the return of a new-look Kiwi Living(TV One, 7.30 Friday) and the documentaries Little Criminals(Prime, 8.30 Monday), which originally aired in SD, Mega-Yachts(TV3, 9,.30 Monday) and Inside the Ku Klux Klan (TV One, 9.30 Tuesday) …

❏ TV One’s network movie premiere of Mr Banks on Easter Sunday will pre-empt Blindspotand push the final of Black Work back to 10pm. Similarly, Prime will pre-empt Father Brown and Partners in Crime on March 26 for an HD re-run of the movie, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, while TV2 will ditch The Simpsonsfor Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Meanwhile, TV3 will replace The Blacklist and Chicago PDwith a re-run of The Bourne Ultimatum on March 30 because Blacklist is off-air in the US until next month …

❏ TV One has pulled the network movie premiere of White Liesfrom Saturday’s schedule. It’s replacing the NZ movie with the HD premiere of the Diane Keaton-Kevin Kline drama, Darling Companion. “It’s been postponed to a later date as we’ve identified another slot for it,” a TVNZ spokesman says. It was surprising to see a 10.35 Saturday berth for the premiere of a prestigious NZ drama with Film Commission and NZ On Air funding. Chances are White Lies will resurface in a Sunday Theatre slot, along with another NZ movie that TV One will broadcast, The Dark Horse …

❏ And TV3 is dropping the March 28 premiere of The Blocktagon for new episodes of American Ninja Warrior. The latter will air 4.25 weekdays, resuming from episode five of season seven. “The Blocktagon will now premiere at a later, yet to be announced date,” the network said …

AAAARRRGGGGG!!!!!!! It’s so frustrating when they do this. Then it’s a real kick in the balls when they replace it with some reality crud. At least the new season of Daredevil is released on Netflix tonight @ 10pm.

TVNZ 2’s promoting 24: Legacy as premiering on February 14. Chances are that will be with a two-hour episode, to catch up with same-week-as-the-US screenings by February 21. It’s also likely the series will air weekly 9.30 Wednesdays so This Is Us and Grey’s Anatomy can be double-billed Tuesdays. TVNZ 2 had originally pencilled in 8.30 Mondays for 24, which would have been the perfect lead-in to The Walking Dead when it returns in a couple of weeks.